Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

From:

Óscar Fuentes

Subject:

Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

Date:

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:36:34 +0100

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
> As long as we're talking about work to do: I'd love for the new portable
> dumper to support dumping Emacs multiple times. I've had to put a lot of
> effort into my configuration to get Emacs to start in an acceptable
> time, and a lot of people tolerate multi-second Emacs startup times.
> It'd be nice if we could dump Emacs after loading user customizations.
This would turn `emacs -Q' into something meaningless, right?
What I would like from a new dumper is to be amenable to memory tools,
such as valgrind which, AFAIK, is unusable nowadays with a dumped emacs.